[Pan-users] Re: Pan 0.119 Multiple servers. Howto?

[Scott]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:48:38 -0600, David Kelly
<address@hidden> spake thusly:

> On Nov 19, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Scott wrote:
> 
>> I see you can use different posting profiles, but how do I *read* a
>> newsgroup from a different server?
> 
> Why do you care which news server Pan uses?

Mostly because I wanted to irritate you.  It seemed to work well don't you
think? 

> The point is that Pan now
> pulls articles from the servers it finds them on. That when a newsgroup
> is on multiple servers it compares and magically offers articles which
> were missing from one.

Well that's nice and all, but how can I be sure that Pan only uses my
preferred server for posting*?

> Its not yet perfect as I think I have seen
> articles that I have deleted which were slow to appear on another
> server, reappear when they arrived at the slow server. "I think", as I
> haven't for sure caught it in the act. Have started "mark all as read"
> rather than use delete which was necessary in the past to keep the prior
> pan's memory use reasonable on large groups.
> 
> When doing bulk downloads Pan distributes the tasks among configured
> servers. Just how it distributes is determined by the news server
> priority setting.

I think we use multiple servers for completely different things.

For example, take a gander at the headers of this message.  On my end this
was not posted to a mailing list.  It was posted to a *newsgroup*.

This is the only sever on the planet that "carries" this newsgroup.

*Anyway, as I stated in my previous post (which I guess you overlooked), 
I've figured this out now.  One makes extensive use of posting profiles.

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        Scott
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